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30 Jelena Stojanović
In the 1960s the “détourned” comics of Andre Bertrand were
added to the SI journal. Refusing to hold copyright, Bertrand’s graphics
ridiculed the ambiguous pop-art strategies of American artists. However,
the largest inXuence the SI had came from their pamphlets including Raoul
Vaneigem’s 1966 brochure, On the Poverty of Student Life, or The Situationists
and the New Forms of Action in Politics and Art. These were widely translated
around the world and in many cases directly contributed to the core of student
upheavals in the mid- to late 1960s. 53 But most inXuential of all was
FIGURE 1.4. Fin de Copenhague, a MIBI détournement by Asger Jorn and
Guy Debord, 1957. GrafWti reads “Long live free Algeria.” Copyright 2004 fam.
Jorn/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/COPY-DAN, Copenhagen.